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The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah Vol 1 - Predestination

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without bloodveeselB or n bones, thy merit would<br />

avail for <strong>the</strong>m!' •<br />

•Ber ked. ^^* ^ ®^^^ ^*^ ^^^ ^^^ inner thoughts <strong>of</strong><br />

his hearers, John Y^J'^ warned <strong>the</strong>m, that God was<br />

able <strong>of</strong> those stones that strewed <strong>the</strong> *Perium«<br />

river-bauk to ifdse up children unto Abraham; **'<br />

or, reverting to his enoe to S^ former illustration<br />

<strong>of</strong>' fruits meet for repentance,' that <strong>the</strong> proolama-'<br />

tion <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Kingdom was, at <strong>the</strong> same time, <strong>the</strong><br />

laying <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> axe to<br />

<strong>the</strong> root <strong>of</strong> every tree that bore not fruit. <strong>The</strong>n<br />

wnilriTig application <strong>of</strong> it, in answer to <strong>the</strong><br />

specific inquiry <strong>of</strong> various classes, <strong>the</strong> preacher<br />

gave <strong>the</strong>m such practical advice as applied to <strong>the</strong><br />

well-known sins <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir past; * yet in this also not<br />

going beyond <strong>the</strong> merely negative, or preparatory<br />

element <strong>of</strong> * repentance.' <strong>The</strong> positive, <strong>and</strong> allimportant<br />

aspect <strong>of</strong> it, was to be presented by <strong>the</strong><br />

Christ. It was only natural that <strong>the</strong> hearers<br />

wondered whe<strong>the</strong>r John himself was <strong>the</strong> Christ,<br />

since he thus urged repentance. For this was so

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